This is an incredibly useful exercise that often creates "a-ha" moments, and almost always involves a reassessment of some parts of your life.

Allow yourself plenty of time for this. Think of five or more times in your life when you felt very fulfilled. Search for times when you've felt that your values have been validated. Try to choose as many different circumstances as you can.

Consider home, relationship, work, sport, social life, travelling, but go for at least five and make them as different as they can be. Also make sure they are times when you felt good about yourself, because of who you were, and that your values were the important part of being happy.

Write down names for each, and put those pieces of paper on the floor or ground, in as wide a circle as you can make.

Now step into each spot in turn, and while you're there write down the values that were fulfilled in each situation, then rank the values from the most important down to the least. Take yourself back into each situation and experience it as strongly as you can as you stand in each spot.

You will have an order of the values fulfilled for each spot. Looking at them all, they may well be very similiar, or they may not be. Don't be concerned either way.

Now step into one spot, thinking about the values that are important there and from that perspective consider each other spot in turn. Ask yourself: how does that situation feel from this perspective? For some people, the values of home and work are quite different, for example.

Allow yourself to feel the way each of the spots works with each other. Move slowly around the circle, considering each peak experience from each other spot. Take your time. It's important that you think things through, but also allow yourself to 'feel' them through.

When all the values feel right, and your intuition tells you that your unconscious mind has sorted everything out, step into the centre of the circle, and ask yourself: "What should I do with my life?"

Pay a lot of attention to whatever comes to mind absolutely immediately - it's what you really know you should do.